Vivian on 
Sin City
The cat has a habit of waking us up at half hour intervals in the morning. If we have to get up at 8, it’s a good thing. If we get to sleep in, we end up threatening her with death. Poor thing just gets lonely and wants to play. So I’m up.
I did not entirely enjoy Sin City when I went to see it the other day. I felt it could have been stylized even more than it was. Especially the ucky violent parts. They weren’t exactly realistic – especially not when the blood was colours other than red – but they weren’t exactly obviously fake. They were just kind of… b-movie.
In the comic book the violent scenes were all silhouette, and were almost kind of beautiful – all spidery, dripping cutout’s of light – practically lace work. It took some of the hard edge of what was actually going on in the images off my mind and let me enjoy the dark yet intriguing sensibilities of the Sin City world.
But I’m not sure what I expected from a movie that involved that Tarantino fellow.
I just loved Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow so much, I had high hopes for another high-camp, all CG, graphic-styled, movie.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the only gory movie I can truly appreciate is Evil Dead – talk about high camp and stylized. Bless Sam Raimi. He knows where to draw the comic book line.
But… but… someone’s balls were ripped off. Does that count for nothing??????
Whether you liked or not so much… you have to respect it for the fact that it (a) someone has finally learned that 100% digital equipment is obviously better (b) used that technology appropriately. I just can’t wait until Spielberg isn’t allowed to make movies… considering he still uses film and a linear editing machine. It’s sort of like coding HTML with a typewriter.
I didn’t say I hated it, just that I was disapointed. The original source comic book outshone the movie that was made from it (and its not like its the first time that’s ever happened). The setting and plot were truly original, and pretty freakin awesome, but as inovative as the digital medium is, the thing just didn’t look as good as it could have. Admittedly they spent like 10 years working on Sky Captain, but I still say it looked better. A more cohesive vision, visually. Also, Minority Report was pretty cool. Not that I’m a fan or anything.
I (proudly) own the Necronomicon version of the Evil Dead DVD.